The Pentagon says it's repatriated to Tunisia one of the detainees from the Guantánamo Bay military prison, leaving 26 in the ...

A court in Serbia has convicted and sentenced to prison terms the parents of a teenage boy who shot dead nine pupils and a ...

Russia and Ukraine have exchanged prisoners of war in the latest such swap that saw the release of hundreds of captives and ...

Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the two countries have engaged in multiple prisoner exchanges.

The Eighth Amendment is meant to protect prisoners against abuse. BI has found that Supreme Court decisions and federal laws ...

The Clinton-era law created a separate, unequal justice system for prisoners, placing obstacles in their way before civil ...

With government ineffectiveness and an increase in both white and black lawlessness, the problem of where and how to house convicts was significant. Initially, some states paid private contractors ...

After a fact-checking group in Syria concluded that a man found in an abandoned Syrian prison was actually an Assad officer ...

The prisoner CNN helped free from a secret facility in Syria was actually a notorious member of Bashar al-Assad’s forces known to torture those who refused to pay him off, according to a ...

CNN confirmed it had been misled by a man who the network initially reported to be a Syrian prisoner freed from a secret jail as CNN cameras rolled after a local fact-checking group said he was ...

During World War II, many Allied pilots faced capture and imprisonment after being shot down. But one daring prisoner of war took matters into his own hands—stealing the camp commander’s personal ...